Stewart Rhodes, the one-eyed leader of the Oath Keepers charged with seditious conspiracy for his actions supporting the January 6th domestic terrorist attack on Congress, tried to get authorization from Donald Trump to allow him to forcibly stop the certification of the 2020 election, The Guardian reports.
According to documents filed in the guilty plea of Oath Keeper William Todd Wilson, after the attack by the mob of domestic terrorists failed to stop the certification, Rhodes and other leaders of the Oath Keepers reconvened in a Washington, DC hotel suite. There, Rhodes called an unspecified individual who he knew to have access to Trump to ask the person to get permission from Trump so armed Oath Keepers could storm the Capitol and take control of Congress. The person refused to let Rhodes talk to Trump, effectively ending the plan.
“Wilson heard Rhodes repeatedly implore the individual to tell President Trump to call upon groups like the Oath Keepers to forcibly oppose the transfer of power,” the document says. “This individual denied Rhodes’s request to speak directly with President Trump.”